US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Read collision avoidance in sequential mixed workloads" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,423, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read collision avoidance in sequential mixed workloads" was invented by Neil Hutchison (Hudsonville, Mich.), Haining Liu (Irvine, Calif.), Jerry Lo (Walnut, Calif.) and Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device processes a mixed workload including a plurality of superblocks to be written to and read from a plurality of memory dies, where each of the plurality of superblocks to be apportioned among the plurality of memory dies. The data storage device writes a first data stripe associ...